“"What is to be done?": Agency and the causation of transformative events in Ireland's 1916 Rising and 1969 Long March”

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2017-06-29 DOI:10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-223

L. Bosi, D. Davis

引用次数: 6

Abstract

This article investigates the role of agency in the causation of transformative events by looking at the competition between rival strands within social movements. The creative activity involved in the elaboration and execution of rival strategies is used as a proxy for agency. We present a paired comparison of two very different transformative events in twentieth-century Ireland—the Easter Rising of 1916 and the Long March from Belfast to Derry in 1969—and the strategic interactions preceding them. The comparison shows how agency and structure can interact around transformative events. High levels of agency were instrumental in making the events, and in turn these events catalyzed powerful social forces. These forces were structural—that is, they reflected divisions, tensions, and power relations that were deeply engrained in the social structure over the long term. However, these structural forces could have remained dormant had it not been for the bursts of agency that brought about the transformative ...

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“该怎么办？”：机构和爱尔兰1916年起义和1969年长征中变革性事件的原因

本文通过观察社会运动中竞争对手之间的竞争，调查了机构在变革事件因果关系中的作用。参与竞争性战略的制定和执行的创造性活动被用作代理。我们对20世纪爱尔兰发生的两个截然不同的变革事件——1916年的复活节起义和1969年从贝尔法斯特到德里的长征——以及它们之前的战略互动进行了配对比较。这一比较显示了机构和结构如何在变革事件中相互作用。高水平的能动性有助于这些事件的发生，而这些事件反过来又催化了强大的社会力量。这些力量是结构性的，也就是说，它们反映了长期以来深深植根于社会结构中的分裂、紧张和权力关系。然而，如果不是机构的爆发带来了变革，这些结构性力量可能一直处于休眠状态……

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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3.80

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.